I was able to turn my passion – photography – into a career. Fashion photography
became the line of work I dedicated myself to, working in Munich and Miami for two
decades. Moving to Paris – the city of luxury and fashion – in 1994, I not only
fulfilled my own desire, but also laid the groundwork for my career. In Paris I worked
passionately for renowned fashion designers, labels and agencies, always aiming at
achieving an ideal symbiosis of naturalness and artistic composition for the model
and the fashion in focus. In that time I also developed my interest in portraiture,
especially in capturing people’s facial expression as a snapshot in its
natural perfection.

Since 2009 my sphere has been in Berlin, which has not only meant a geographical
change, but also an artistic one. The human face has increasingly fascinated me and
has more and more become the focus of my work. My project BERLIN BEAUTY
expresses this fascination in its form and title. Not only perfect beauty is in the centre
of my work, but moreover the human face as an expression of of a personal history, a
life with all its ups and downs — and all this in a city which has also gone and is still
going through ups and downs, which is constantly undergoing transformation and
therefore will never reach a stage of completion, pleasantness, which will never be
static, although there are continuities and things that remain. For me, capturing a face
in a portrait is more than merely creating a reflection of perfection. For me it means
capturing a momentary state/condition or mood, a fleeting emotion, an expression of
live lived.

In the same way that I see myself as witness of life in Berlin and of one person’s
individual life in my project BERLIN BEAUTY and in my other personal projects
(Out of The Dark / Kunsthaus Tacheles / Paris Bar / Warschauer Brücke) I am
also aiming at capturing the pulse of time and of the city of Berlin and expressing
its evanescence, but also preserving something for the future.